Not until she visited Texas, that proud state of big oil and
bigger ambitions, did Gail Collins, the best-selling author
and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had
missed the one place that mattered most in America’s
political landscape. Raised in Ohio, Collins had previously
seen the American fundamental divide as a war between the
Republican heartland and its two liberal coasts.
But the real story, she came to see, was in Texas, where
Bush, Cheney, Rove, & Perry had created a conservative
political agenda that is now sweeping the country and
defining our national identity. Through its vigorous support
of banking deregulation, lax environmental standards, and
draconian tax cuts, through its fierce championing of states
rights, gun ownership, and, of course, sexual abstinence,
Texas, with Governor Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions,
has become the bellwether of a far-reaching national
movement that continues to have profound social and economic
consequences for us all. Like it or not, as Texas goes, so
goes the nation.
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